Potential Obstacles To Downtown Affordable Housing Project

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1. Developers unwilling to bid on the project.
   > Project complexity creates too much planning, design and construction risks
   > Community opposition amplifies project risk
   > Risk of protracted litigation further increases project risk
   > No interest on building a public parking structure
   > Unavailability of state funding
   > Very low-income rentals generate do not support needed debt
   
2. Community opposes final project design.
   > Multi-year construction will irrevocably harm Downtown
   > Inadequate or inconvenient public parking irrevocably harms Downtown
   > Community opposes $40M cost of parking structure
   > Community opposes potential multi-year litigation cost exposure due to surplus land challenge
   
3. Community demands an advisory ballot and a ballot measure, if necessary.
   

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